The River in the sky: A Poem [Audiobook] download free by Clive James
- Listen audiobook: The River in the sky: A Poem
- Author: Clive James
- Release date: 2018/12/26
- Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781631494734
- Rating: 7.86 of 10
- Votes: 340
- Review by: Rocco Stackhouse
- Review rating: 7.54 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/15
- Duration: 1H32M44S in 256 kbps (25.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MOD, WMA, MPEG-4 SLS, AU, WAV, MPEG4, MP3, FLAC (compression TGZ, ZIP, TBZ2, TAR.XZ, ALZ, ISO, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 128
- Includes a PDF summary of 13 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 9M26S (2.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time,' writes Clive James in his epic poem, The River in the Sky. What emerges from this lamentation is a soaring epic of exceptional depth and overwhelming feeling, all the more extraordinary given its appearance in an age when the heroic poem seems to have disappeared from contemporary literature. Among James's many talents is his uncanny ability to juxtapose references to early twentieth-century poets with 'offbeat humor and flyaway cultural observations' (Dwight Garner, New York Times), or allusions to the adagio of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony contrasted with references to 'YouTube's vast cosmopolis.' Whether recalling his Australian childhood or his father's 'clean white headstone' in a Hong Kong cemetery, James's autobiographical epic ultimately helps us define the meaning of life.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Poetry By Individual Poets, Poetry & Drama
- Download servers: Google Drive, FreakShare, BitShare, Waistra, 4Shared, Zippyshare, Microsoft OneDrive, FileServe, ge.tt. Compressed in TGZ, ZIP, TBZ2, TAR.XZ, ALZ, ISO, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 25.88 USD
- Dimensions: 150x218x18mm
- Weight: 310g
- Printed by: Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Published in: United States
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